Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life ended with a shocking cliffhanger years in the making. When Rory uttered those momentous words – “Mom? I’m pregnant” — everything changed. But it wasn’t enough to keep Melissa McCarthy around.

In a new interview with ET, McCarthy said she (sad day) had no intention of returning to the reboot as Lorelai’s BFF chef Sookie St. James.

“No [I wouldn’t come back as Sookie],” she told the site, “but I would come back as Lorelai. And that is a challenge to Lauren Graham.”

Graham plays Lorelai on the show.

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It’s unclear if the show will be renewed for a second season, though that ending would suggest there’s much more of the story to be told. In late December 2016, the official Netflix account posted a very suspicious tweet